Saturday, December 29, 2012

Linux - Consequences on giving up the 386

Well, the disk drive on my main machine was constantly flaking out with io errors. So I got myself a brand new solid state disk for Christmas. Man that's fast! But they are expensive, so I only got a 128 gb drive for the main Linux system. General storage is still on old mag disks.

But, installing a new system ran right in to the current trend of abandoning the 386 (32 bits). My Xerox 6125N only has a rotten old driver written in 2008, which needs 32 bits. My new system has Debian Sid which has abandoned it. It took half a day to figure this all out.